Trump’s tinderbox: US politics and the next war in the Balkans
Serbian revisionism is on the march and would be greatly strengthened by a Trump win. The EU must prepare a deterrence plan — and take greater responsibility for Western Balkan security
Experts & Staff
Adnan Ćerimagić
Senior Analyst for the Western Balkans
Areas of expertise
Western Balkans; EU enlargement; human rights; rule of law; democracy
Languages
English, German, Bosnian/Croatian/Montenegrin/Serbian, conversational French, Spanish
Biography
Adnan Ćerimagić is a senior analyst for the Western Balkans at the European Stability Initiative (ESI), a Berlin-based think-tank, where he researches European Union policy towards the region.
Before joining ESI in August 2013, Ćerimagić has worked for the ministry of foreign affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Sarajevo and Brussels. He also spent some time in the secretariat of the European Parliament’s foreign affairs committee and worked for the European Training and Research Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (ETC) in Graz.
Ćerimagić studied law at the University of Graz , Austria, and EU international relations and diplomacy at the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium. He is a member of the advisory board of the International Institute for Peace in Vienna and the international advisory board of the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy. He is based in Berlin.
In the media
Majda Ruge and Adnan Ćerimagić on the role Trump played in the Balkans in his first presidency